Hillary Clinton's picture with Pussy Riot goes viral

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s support for the Russian punk band Pussy Riot has gone viral.

A photo tweeted Friday by Clinton, the former secretary of State, showing her posing with two of the women from the band has been retweeted more than 9,200 times and favorited more than 10,900 times. The picture was taken backstage at the Women in the World Summit, where Clinton talked about how women in public life face a double standard largely perpetuated by the news media.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, on the left and right of Clinton in the photo, were jailed for a profanity-laced song slamming Russian President Vladimir Putin. They were charged with hooliganism involving religious hatred.

The women were cleared Friday of inciting religious hatred, but the court only knocked off one month from their sentences, Reuters reported. The charges stem from Pussy Riot’s performance in February 2012 at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and the women were released from jail in December under an amnesty law.